Due to dense and persistent fog conditions, the motorway police on Monday partially closed various key motorways, including sections of the M-2, M-3, M-4, M-5, and M-11.

In a post on X, the National Highways and Motorway Police (NHMP) said that various sections of key motorways had been closed due to prevailing fog conditions.

As of 10:25am today, NHMP said on its X account that the M-2 motorway had been closed from Thokar Niaz Baig to Sial Mor, the M-3 motorway remained closed from Faisal Pur to Darakhana, and the M-4 motorway is closed from Shershah to Pindi Bhattian.

While the M-5 motorway is closed from Shershah to Zaheer Peer, and the M-11 motorway is closed from Lahore to Sambrial.

Earlier, the NHMP said that Motorway M-5 was closed from Rohri to Rahim Yar Khan, but it had now been opened due to “improved visibility”.

According to the Pakistan Meteorological Department’s fog forecast, the M-2 (Pindi Bhattian-Lahore), M-3 (Lahore - Abdul Hakim), M-11 (Sialkot - Lahore), M-4 (Pindi Bhattian - Faisalabad), and M-5 (Multan - Sukkur) were expected to remain in “dense“ fog situation till 11am.

Last week, three people were killed, and 34 others were injured in fog-related accidents in various parts of Punjab.

On January 7, dense fog paralysed road traffic across large parts of Punjab, prompting authorities to close several key motorways.

According to a spokesperson for the NHMP Central Region, the M-4 Motorway from Gojra to Abdul Hakeem and the M-11 Lahore-Sialkot Motorway were closed for all traffic due to severely reduced visibility.